Is This Going to Far

Is 13-years young enough for a life sentence. According to the Reno Gazette Journal, one Nevada judges believes it to be true. The person got a sentence for 16 to life for “

Washoe District Court Judge Patrick Flanagan sentenced 13-year-old Jose Cruz to a term of life plus 6-15 years for the shooting death of Stephen Gale at the end of a robbery spree in Carson City and Reno.

Cruz, who pleaded guilty earlier to second-degree murder with a deadly weapon, will be eligible for parole after 16 years.

The judge said he could not find any redeeming value in Cruz, calling him a “pathological antisocial miscreant”

In reality, he should given prison until he was 21 years old and let out of prison. His records should be sealed and he would be to start a life on a fresh break.

Labeling himsome a pathological antisocial miscreant at the age of 13. The boy has not formally developed socially and could be significantly influenced by peer pressure and improper role-modeling by adult.

He is too young for a life sentence and imprisonment until the age of 18 or 21 is a far better option.